Leontyne Price Quotes
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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'I’m from out of town,' he said breezily. This was true. He’d never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
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I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
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It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
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You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
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Accomplishments have no color.
